From: /m 

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:01:53 -0700, Randall Parker

wrote:

>/m,
>
>3 seconds is a lot longer than the nearly instant resize I get on the
>same page with Mozilla FireFox on a 2.2 Ghz P4 laptop with WinXP Home.

I use Verdana as my default font, maybe that has something to do with it. 



>
>Do you have FireFox on the same machine?

No.   I don't use FireFox too much at all.


>
>Do you happen to have Knoppix Linux on a CD?

No.

> With that you could test that same machine with Linux.

No gots, no can do. :)

>
>If I could get my Opera install on Linux to complete I could compare
>Opera and FireFox on Linux.


btw, Safari on my MacMini takes about a second to zoom.

Opera takes about 4 seconds on the MacMini.  It's Opera's first release of
an Intel binary.

MacMini: Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz, 2GB memory.


>
>/m wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:05:51 -0700, Randall Parker
>>

>> wrote:
>>> http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/cat_energy_tech.html
>>>
>>> This page takes 12 seconds to become bigger when I hit Ctrl+=. Then it
>>> took 11 seconds to become smaller when I hit Ctrl+-.
>>>
>>> Geo, you want to try your Knoppix disk with that?
>>
>> fwiw, I loaded the page in Opera, and then "zoomed" the
page by 10%. The
>> new page rendered in 3 seconds.
>>
>> 2.4GHz Pentium 4, 800MHz FSB,  Windows 2000.
>>
>>  /m

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